One of the best things about working at gDiapers is the privilege of knowing so many mothers. Women connect with us when they are planning for their baby’s arrival, and we get to witness them being born mothers. It’s an incredible transition and it’s one that we believe every mother should be able to make. But the world loses 300,000 mothers during pregnancy and childbirth each year. That means the loss of a mother every two minutes.

But there is hope. Read on to see how gDiapers and Every Mother Counts are working to make a difference.

Today we welcome guest blogger (and definitive expert on all things nap-related), Alicia Steffann, of the popular blog, Naps Happen.

An Expert at Being a Non-Expert

Long before I ever even considered writing a blog, I was agonizing over what type of diapers to use. With my first son on the way, I wanted to make a diapering choice that would be kinder to the environment. When I discovered

Maybe you are like most of us here at gHQ, who can remember a time when our children were infants and we encountered a toddler. “I can’t imagine my son will ever spill/scream/climb/destruct like that,” we thought in disbelief. Fast forward 90 weeks or so when each of us was proved oh so wrong.

It’s easy to throw up our hands in the face of plastic-filled gyres and contaminated fish, but we’re not the types to be intimidated. Our current plastics situation is in many ways the by-product of “convenience” products that have only been in our lives for a generation. Learn more about the cult of disposable plastics, and how you’re already doing your part to fix it.